[rt-users] question about chart in FAQ.

[Rob Walker]

On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 08:23, Harald Wagener wrote:
> Rob Walker wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 07:22, Harald Wagener wrote:
> >>It should include things like Makefile-supported installation and stuff. 
> >>Don't hold Your breath for an official announcement, though.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >That's cool.  Will the Makefile look for previously installed /stats/
> >stuff?  :-)
> >  
> >
> 
> Since ben is working on it right now, and I barely have time to peruse 
> the mailing list, I can't really comment on it. But it would be a useful 
> check .What would be Your preferred method of handling this case?

Is there any way for an applicatoin to figure out where apaches' config
files are at?  If there is, you could look at /etc/apache*/httpd.conf
for anything with "rt2" in the domain name, and if found, look at the
virtdomain config for /stats handling stuff.

Also, I would suspect you have a list of md5sums of the files from the
previous releases.  Then you will be able to know with pretty good
certainty whether or not an old file is on the system which hasn't been
edited, and can be nuked.

"make find-old"
"make uninstall-old"

might be two commands which work in that order.  Is it completely
necessary to query the user before deleting any files?  I suspect it is,
possibly even before each file individually.

rob